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argument looks plausible at first sight, a little reflection will probably 

 convince many that it is baseless. We may leave genera out of the 

 question now, as Staudinger has not attempted to grapple with the 

 difficulties which they present ; but as regards species, it must be 

 remembered — ist, that Staudinger starts from 1758, instead of 1767, and 

 that I should have done the same had I investigated the question fully 

 when I commenced my work ; and 2nd, that Staudinger, working at 

 European Lepidoptera only, was necessarily better acquainted with the 

 special literature relating to them than myself. Had I selected 1758, and 

 possessed Werneburg's Beitrage zur Schmetterlings kunde at the time I 

 was writing my own Catalogue, or had Staudinger's new Catalogue been 

 published in time for me to verify the references contained in it, I think I 

 may say that many of the alleged discrepancies would have disappeared, 

 although, in some cases, I may have made use of materials which 

 Staudinger does not appear to have employed, or may have seen reason 

 to disagree with him as to the determination of certain species. Unless 

 two authors have exactly the same materials to work with, or one copies 

 from the other, no rules will be sufficient to insure their absolute agree- 

 ment in every case ; but by the strict law of priority, the chances of 

 disagreement are reduced to a minimum. 



MICRO - LEPIDOPTERA. 



BY V. T. CHAMBERS, COVINGTON, KENTUCKY. 

 (Continued from page 170.) 

 ANTISPILA. 



A. ampelopsisclla. N. sp. 



In the preceding paper on this genus I mentioned that I had found 

 the larva of this species mining the leaves of Ampelopsis quinquefolia. 

 Since that paper was placed in the hands of the Editor, many months 

 ago, I have succeeded in rearing it from the mine.''' 



* The specimen mentioned in that paper as having been hrecl from the Long- 

 worth grape vine, IS now too much denu-led for satisfactory comparison with this 

 species, but I believe it to be the same ; certainl}' it is not any of the other known 

 American species, and I have never met with it except in the Longworth grape leaf^ 



